Low pre-diagnosis attrition but high pre-treatment attrition among patients with MDR-TB: An operational research from Chennai, India

• Main Authors: Hemant Deepak Shewade (Author), Dina Nair (Author), Joel S. Klinton (Author), Malik Parmar (Author), J. Lavanya (Author), Lakshmi Murali (Author), Vivek Gupta (Author), Jaya Prasad Tripathy (Author), Soumya Swaminathan (Author), Ajay M.V. Kumar (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Springer, 2019-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Worldwide, there's concern over high pre-diagnosis and pre-treatment attritions or delays in Multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) diagnosis and treatment pathway (DTP). We conducted this operational research among patients with presumptive MDR-TB in north and central Chennai, I...